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Less than a month after renaming its physical DVD service Qwikster and separating it from the core Netflix brand, Netflix has reversed course, announcing that both the streaming and DVD services will operate from the Netflix website.

"It is clear that for many of our members two websites would make things more difficult, so we are going to keep Netflix as one place to go for streaming and DVDs," CEO Reed Hastings said Monday in a blog post and email to customers.

This does not reverse its controversial new pricing plan, which increased fees for subscribers who wanted to both stream and order DVDs. It just brings the service back to where it was before the short-lived Qwikster expierment.

Hastings also noted in the post that the company — which in September lost its deal with Starz — has recently added movies from Paramount, Sony, Universal, Fox, Warner Bros., Lionsgate, MGM and Miramax.

Netflix's original decision to divide its two services was met with anger and confusion by consumers, especially coming on the heels of the new pricing plan that forced its customers to pay more if they wanted both the streaming and the DVD service.

The Qwikster move was interpreted as an effort to push people into the streaming-only plan due to the cost of delivering physical DVDs. However, Hastings and his spokespeople denied that at the time.